Illorsuit
Illorsuit is a former settlement in Avannaata municipality, in western Greenland. Located on the northeastern shore of Illorsuit Island − northwest of Uummannaq at the mouth of the Uummannaq Fjord − the settlement had 91 inhabitants in 2010.- Type: Village with 91 residents
- Description: place on Illorsuit Island in Avannaata, Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark
- Also known as: “Igdlorsuit”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Illorsuit Heliport.
Illorsuit Heliport
Helipad
Illorsuit Heliport is a heliport in Illorsuit, a village on an island of the same name in the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland. The heliport is considered a helistop, and is served by Air Greenland as part of government contract.
Illorsuit
- Categories: hamlet, ghost town, and locality
- Location: Avannaata, Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
71.24179° or 71° 14′ 31″ north
Longitude
-53.56605° or 53° 33′ 58″ west
Population
91
Elevation
551 metres (1,808 feet)
IATA airport code
IOT
United Nations Location Code
GL ILL
Open location code
C8386CRM+PH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Uzbek—“Illorsuit” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Illorsuit”
- Bavarian: “Illorsuit”
- Czech: “Illorsuit”
- Danish: “Igdlorssuit”
- Danish: “Illorsuit”
- Dutch: “Illorsuit”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الورسويت”
- French: “Illorsuit”
- Galician: “Illorsuit”
- Georgian: “ილორსუიტი”
- German: “Illorsuit”
- Hebrew: “אילורסוויט”
- Italian: “Illorsuit”
- Japanese: “イロルスイト”
- Lithuanian: “Ilorsuitas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Illorsuit”
- Norwegian: “Illorsuit”
- Polish: “Illorsuit”
- Portuguese: “Illorsuit”
- Russian: “Иллорсуит”
- Spanish: “Igdlorssuit”
- Spanish: “Illorsuit”
- Swedish: “Illorsuit”
- Turkish: “Illorsuit”
- Uzbek: “Illorsuit”
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